Table 4
Construction details
Structure
Time
Equipment
Materials
Comments
Placed as USACE
District, Vicksburrg,
method. 17 full-time, 4
part-time laborers. 5
laborers worked sand
bagging machine, 6 filled
bags by hand, 1
Manual sand bagging
equipment operator, rest
205.1
machine, Cat 916
carried and stacked
Sandbags
Sandbags, sand
man-hrs
front-end loader
sandbags.
One HESCO supervisor,
4 laborers unfamiliar with
Sand, aerosol foam (used
product, one equipment
HESCO Bastion
20.8
CAT 916 front-end
to seal structure to wing
Concertainer
man-hrs
loader
walls)
operator
Sand, Portland cement
One RDFW supervisor, 4
(mixed with sand in
laborers unfamiliar with
32.8
CAT 916 Front-end
structure toe and adjacent
product, one equipment
RDFW
to wing walls)
operator
man-hrs
loader
One Portadam supervisor
and one laborer
assembled framework
while three laborers filled
sandbags, then
supervisor and two
Sandbags, tape (apron
laborers installed apron,
was taped to concrete
one equipment operator.
Laborers were unfamiliar
24.4
floor, tape was covered
Portadam
man-hrs
with sandbags)
with the product.
Table 5
Disassembly details
Structure
Time
Equipment
Comments
CAT 916 Front-end
2 laborers, 1 equipment operator. All materials
Sandbags
9.0 man-hrs
loader
disposed of.
HESCO Bastion
CAT 916 Front-end
One HESCO supervisor, 3 laborers, one
Concertainer
loader
equipment operator
13.4 man-hrs
Bobcat front-end
loader, Hyster
One RDFW supervisor, 4 laberors, one
RDFW
42.0 man-hrs
equipment operator
vacuum cleaners
1 Portadam supervisor, 2 laborers, one
Portadam
4.4 man-hrs
equipment operator